Russell Paul : Salt Point (Plume) - Softcover

Russell, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0452265924 ISBN 13: 9780452265929

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd, 1991

Synopsis

Four friends and lovers in Poughkeepsie, N.Y.--Anatole, who loves Leigh, Leigh, a beauty in love with Lydia, Lydia, who's reluctantly nearing thirty, and Chris, the taciturn friend to all--experience the highs and lows of contemporary life

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Review

"Mr. Russell has created a wise, tender, and remarkably engrossing story about human affections--their power and illogic, their preciousness and unpredictability--and about how those affections flare and fare at the 'salt point.'"--Bruce Bawer, " The Wall Street Journal"

""The Salt Point" finds the sacred and poetic even in the slag heap of small-town America."--Edmund White

"Like one of the nastier Henry James novels, "The Salt Point" shows how very possible it is for all of its characters to do unspeakable harm to each other, without allowing themselves to know what they are doing."--Madison Smartt Bell, "The Village Voice"

"Russell moves his characters into various striking arrangements with one another as deftly as a chess master and writes about their longings with cool, evocative precision."--"The Washington Post Book World"

Mr. Russell has created a wise, tender, and remarkably engrossing story about human affections--their power and illogic, their preciousness and unpredictability--and about how those affections flare and fare at the 'salt point.' "Bruce Bawer, The Wall Street Journal"

"The Salt Point" finds the sacred and poetic even in the slag heap of small-town America. "Edmund White"

Like one of the nastier Henry James novels, "The Salt Point" shows how very possible it is for all of its characters to do unspeakable harm to each other, without allowing themselves to know what they are doing. "Madison Smartt Bell, The Village Voice"

Russell moves his characters into various striking arrangements with one another as deftly as a chess master and writes about their longings with cool, evocative precision. "The Washington Post Book World""

"Mr. Russell has created a wise, tender, and remarkably engrossing story about human affections--their power and illogic, their preciousness and unpredictability--and about how those affections flare and fare at the 'salt point.'" --Bruce Bawer, The Wall Street Journal

"The Salt Point finds the sacred and poetic even in the slag heap of small-town America." --Edmund White

"Like one of the nastier Henry James novels, The Salt Point shows how very possible it is for all of its characters to do unspeakable harm to each other, without allowing themselves to know what they are doing." --Madison Smartt Bell, The Village Voice

"Russell moves his characters into various striking arrangements with one another as deftly as a chess master and writes about their longings with cool, evocative precision." --The Washington Post Book World

About the Author

Paul Russell is the author of three previous novels--The Salt Point, Boys of Life, and Sea of Tranquillity--as well as The Gay 100, a work of non-fiction. He is Professor of English at Vassar College and lives in upstate New York.

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
• Publication date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0452265924
• ISBN 13: 9780452265929
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224